Codemasters’ Gavin Cheshire has confirmed Colin McRae: DiRT 3 in a wandering interview with EDGE magazine.
“There's some great stuff coming from Birmingham that's going into DiRT 3,” he dropped.
“DiRT was a complete reboot - we threw away what was going on and redid it completely - and then we rebooted GRID because it wasn't top gun, and then we rebooted DiRT 2. I'm not saying we're throwing all the codebase away, but we're throwing the thoughts away and coming out with something fresh and new. Because if you don't innovate, you're dead.”
As a British publisher, Cheshire also mentioned that Codemasters would fly the union jack more prominently in DiRT 3.
“I guess in today's world, every day you're dealing with people from all over the world. So it's a British company and the last bastion of British publishing, and there is some pride in that, but it doesn't take control of your life.
“It's about the culture we've created and making the best games you can. DiRT 2: brilliant game but it's all American accents, so maybe we're a little over the top with those,” he said.
No dates or systems were discussed but we can probably rule out the PSP as a possible platform. Elsewhere in the interview Cheshire threw in his ten pence on the portable console: “Speaking as a person who bought a PSP, the problem was that I always thought - because it was a better screen than iPod's - that I'd be doing more with it. But it was such a bollocking useless waste of space; just getting stuff on it was ridiculous.”
Ouch.
Thanks, Eurogamer.
